Now 101 homes are planned for old college site
And they’re just across the road from 98 other homes earmarked for Aberdare Boys’ School site:
FURTHER details to turn Coleg y Cymoedd’s closing Aberdare campus into housing have been revealed.
Last month the college revealed it wants to turn its Cwmdare Road campus into around 100 homes after the buildings – which have served college students since 1959 – make way for a stateof-the-art £22m campus in Robertstown next September.
The land is a stone’s throw from the now closed Aberdare High School site – which will be transformed into 98 homes.
As part of its consultation process with local residents, Coleg y Cymoedd has posted a draft plan for its outline planning application – where more details have been revealed in a design access statement.
In total, 101 homes are shown on a draft masterplan with 26 four to five-bedroom homes, 58 three-bedroom homes, 15 two-bed houses and four one-bed flats.
There is a mix of detached, semi-detached and terraced housing, and the plan adds that 10% will be affordable housing.
There are also areas of the development earmarked for a children’s play area and green space.
The site would be accessed through an “improved priority junction” off Cwmdare Road, leading to a central “primary street” of the development.
There will be two extra footpath accesses to the site – off Cwmdare Road and Hirwaun Road, where there is a bus stop.
The design access statement concludes by saying: “This document accompanies an outline planning application for residential development at the Aberdare Campus site on Cwmdare Road.
“The proposed development represents a logical expansion of neighbouring residential development on a site which sits within the existing settlement boundary.”
It adds: “The indicative masterplan shows a development of 101 houses, representing a density of 35dph within a developable area of 2.9 hectares.
“This is within a range proposed by the application, of up to 110 dwellings.”
A consultation period with members of the community over the project started on November 17, and ends on December 16.